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PHC stays deportation of 86 Afghan medical students​

Bureau Report
October 5, 2026

PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court has temporarily stopped deportation of 86 Afghan students studying in different public sector medical colleges in the province and allowed them to continue their studies.

A bench consisting of Justice Wiqar Ahmad and Justice Farah Jamshed issued notices to respondents including the federal interior secretary, director general of immigration and passport and Pakistan Medical and Dental Council’s registrar, seeking their comments in a petition filed jointly by the said 86 students including Selsela Dost and others.

The bench fixed Oct 12 for next hearing of the petition with the direction that in the meanwhile, petitioners should not be deported till the next date of hearing. “They shall be allowed to continue their studies, if there is no other reason for discontinuation of their studies,” the bench directed.

The bench also ordered to club the instant petition with an earlier one filed by another Afghan student Seemen Noori on the same issue.

Allows them to continue studies in medical colleges of KP

The petitioners have sought multiple reliefs from the court, seeking declaration that the two impugned letters issued by PMDC on July 31, 2026, and Sept 1, 2026, insofar as they required the petitioners to discontinue their studies and immediately leave Pakistan, as illegal, arbitrary and of no legal effect.

They sought directives of the court for medical and dental colleges in the province to allow the petitioners to smoothly continue their studies, without interruption merely on account of the impugned PMDC letters/circulars or pendency of their visa-extension applications.

Advocate Waseemuddin Khattak appeared for the petitioners and stated that his clients had been granted admission against Afghan quota seats into various medical and dental colleges across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.